Posts published in “FOOD”

The Great Mystery of Thomas Keller’s TAK Room Solved Despite the food media’s ’round-the-clock coverage of the opening of the Shops & Restaurants at Hudson Yards, one story — perhaps the essential story — has gone untold: What’s up with…

Rice Cakes Fundido Are the Korean-Swiss-Mexican Mash-up You Need Right Now At Haenyeo, a new corner restaurant in Park Slope, the menu description “saucy and spicy rice cake fundido” is intriguing, but it cannot entirely prepare a diner for the…

Crown Shy Opens With Fine Dining From a Former Eleven Madison Park Chef If you were to, say, hatch your dream plan to build New York’s next great restaurant group, you might fantasize about making your entrance at a place…

The Inventor of Jelly Belly Is Making CBD Jelly Beans It’s been nearly 40 years since Jelly Belly creator David Klein sold his stake in the world-famous company, but once a jelly bean maker, always a jelly bean maker. USA…

Mister Paradise’s Apple-Pie Hot Pocket Is No Joke If you were out to disabuse the drinking public of the notion that all so-called craft-cocktail bars are tedious, pretentious places with zero potential for cutting loose and having fun — which…

This Red Hook Tavern Is Part Americana, Part Cantina Only a few weeks after leaving Mettā, the pyromaniacal chef Norberto Piattoni has resurfaced — at a bar in Red Hook. The former Francis Mallmann co-conspirator has traded in his grill…

Food & Wine Shares Its List of Great Restaurants to Work For Restaurants are notorious for not always being the best places to work. The industry has a 72.5 percent turnover rate and a long history of abusive work environments,…

This Cake Tastes How Vacation Feels Ricardo Barreras’s No. 1 problem with Cuban bakeries and restaurants outside of south Florida is that most don’t actually use enough Cuban ingredients. “Basically, every one of them uses Mexican ingredients or other Latin…

René Redzepi’s MAD Is Starting a Culinary School René Redzepi launched MAD in 2011, with a biennial symposium exploring questions like, “What is cooking?” Those engagements feature and bring together famous chefs like Dave Chang and Jessica Koslow, but now…

All New York City Public Schools Will Adopt Meatless Mondays New York City schools have a lot of pervasive issues, but, fortunately, food is not one of them. Since 2017, breakfast and lunch has been free at all public schools…

It Sure Sounds Like Café Loup’s Martini-Soaked Chapter Has Closed After being served a Corpse Reviver this past fall, the West Village’s literary bistro Café Loup was seized by New York’s state government again last week, sealing its doors for…